03107oam 2200721I 450 991049595840332120230421033215.00-520-91137-70-585-16123-210.1525/9780520911376(CKB)110989862154008(SSID)ssj0000118894(PQKBManifestationID)11992109(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118894(PQKBWorkID)10054401(PQKB)10126004(DE-B1597)542538(DE-B1597)9780520911376(OCoLC)1163877823(MiAaPQ)EBC30696867(Au-PeEL)EBL30696867(OCoLC)1394120277(EXLCZ)9911098986215400820200707h19921992 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCaught in the act theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel /Joseph LitvakReprint 2019Berkeley, CA :University of California Press,[1992]©19921 online resource (xvii, 283 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-07454-8 0-520-07452-1 Infection of acting : theatricals and theatricality in Mansfield Park -- Governess as actress : the inscription of theatricality in Jane Eyre -- Scenes of writing, scenes of instruction : authority and subversion in Villette -- Dickens and sensationalism -- Poetry and theatricality in Daniel Deronda -- Making a scene : Henry James's theater of embarrassment -- Actress, monster, novelist : figuration and counterplot in The Tragic muse.Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introducing opportunities for novelists to resist them. This approach encourages a rethinking of the genre and its cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPerforming arts in literatureTheater in literatureActors in literatureActing in literatureEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Performing arts in literatureTheater in literatureActors in literatureActing in literatureEnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature823/.809357Litvak Joseph946354DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910495958403321Caught in the act2867992UNINA